@article{oai:ocuocjc.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000277, author = {伊佐, 雅子}, issue = {1}, journal = {沖縄キリスト教学院大学論集 = Okinawa Christian University Review}, month = {Mar}, note = {This study investigated what the phenomenology and hermeneutic methods can do for the studies of cross-cultural adaptation by using the data from the wives of Japanese corporate sojourners returning from the U.S. The result revealed three things: 1) to bracket the existing theories and to see things in a new light, 2) to provide the insight of how the self relates to the outer world in an unfamiliar situation, and 3) to find out the essence of the phenomena of culture shock. Phenomenological speaking, the reason Japanese wives have reintegration problems after returning home is that by leaving the U.S., they are removed from the familiar, in terms of space and time, and placed in an unfamiliar environment as a result of which their life is upset. Space and time is a transcendental manifold which shape all patterns of behavior. The difference in space and time shows not only the physical difference of space and time, but also the difference of the sensory transformation of human beings. In other words, how the human beings in a culture interacts with the outer world through the senses. More precisely, it reveals the difference of how they get knowledge from the outer world, and finally leads to the difference of how they exist in a culture.}, pages = {5--19}, title = {現象学・解釈学的アプローチからの異文化適応研究について-日本人企業駐在員の妻たちの調査を基に-}, year = {2005} }